BMA members marching in London against cuts to the NHS

Don’t bully GPs – BMA warns Tories

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THE BMA has responded angrily to threats to GPs issued by the government’s new Chief Inspector of Primary Care, Professor Steve Field, who takes...

FRENCH YOUTH ERUPT! – against deportations

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TENS of thousands of French youth walked out of their classes and lectures and joined marches on Thursday protesting over the removal of two...

‘Don’t blame me’–if ‘Remain’ loses says Corbyn!

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ASKED if he would take the blame if Britain votes to leave the EU tomorrow, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn replied: ‘I’m not going...

NHS Crisis: 82 ‘Ghost Wards’ Contain 1,400 Empty Beds

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YEARS of savage Tory cuts to the NHS have created the unprecedented situation where there are not even enough staff to run wards. It...

‘CULTURAL VANDALISM!’ Free TV licences for over-75s axed

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‘TO HOBBLE the BBC in this way is, as one MP has already described, a piece of cultural vandalism. The government must face up...

National Dock Strike! Warns Unite

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UNITE is warning that the refusal of the nation’s port employers to make fair pay offers to their workers could result in a national dock...

Chancellor Reeves in crisis as government borrowing soars!

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CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves is facing mounting pressure as government borrowing soars far beyond expectations, alongside new signs of economic decline. In the year to March,...
Junior doctors and BMA members demonstrate their support for the junior doctors’ struggle outside the meeting yesterday

Demand TUC take action! – Anna Athow tells BMA’s Representative Meeting

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BMA chair Dr Mark Porter told the union’s Special Representative Meeting yesterday that ‘Twenty-four years ago, it was the first reforms that established an...

6 Months Of Gate Gourmet Lock-Out!

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‘Next Friday will be six months since we were locked out on August 10th 2005’, locked out Gate Gourmet worker Lakhinder Saran told News...
A group of the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers outside the Employment Tribunal in Reading

GATE GOURMET SACKINGS ‘PREMEDITATED’ – union pfficial confirms

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APPEARING at the Gate Gourmet sacked workers employment tribunal yesterday was Brendan Gold, TGWU national secretary for civil aviation transport. He was also responsible at...

Defend West Hendon Homes!

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TENANTS and residents at the West Hendon Estate in Barnet, North West London, are holding a meeting, a march and a giant banner drop...

Russia for negotiated ceasefire! – ‘There will be no joining NATO!’

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THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...

‘It is Israel’s goal to starve the population and to drive them out of...

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‘ALL ACTS of genocide are being perpetrated against Gaza,’ Amjad Al Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) said yesterday. ‘What is required now...
West Midlands delegation standing by a CWU campaign banner outside the CWU Policy Forum in central London showing their determination to stop privatisation

‘No Way Is This Industry Going To Be Privatised’

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THE Communication Workers Union Policy Forum of over 500 CWU reps in central London yesterday voted unanimously for a national strike ballot of Royal...
There were a number of lobbies of parliament on Wednesday demanding the end to attacks on the NHS and the Welfare State. Workers are demanding that the trade unions take action to rid the country of the coalition government. Photo credit: Beta Luciano

Miliband attacks unions! – after McCluskey warns of ‘dustbin of history’

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UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey has been denounced as ‘reprehensible’ and ‘divisive’ by Labour leader Ed Miliband and his shadow cabinet. McCluskey’s crime was to...

Manchester indefinite bus strike!

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MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...

Heathrow workers support WRP’s Zulkifal

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HEATHROW Airport workers signed up to support the campaign to elect Hassan Zulkifal, WRP Ealing Southall general election candidate, yesterday. Unite member Ram Sheemar said:...

3rd Day of Palestinian hunger strike!

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OVER 100 Fatah-affiliated prisoners in Israeli jails entered their third day on hunger strike yesterday, prisoner representatives said. The 120 prisoners, all held in Nafha...

Heathrow – Unite steps up strike action

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WORKERS at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is...
Youth and workers marching through central London against the Coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in July

‘They are tearing the heart out of the NHS’ – says Kevin O’Brien Epsom...

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‘THEY are tearing the heart out of the hospital,’ said Epsom and St Helier NHS Unison branch secretary Kevin O’Brien yesterday. He was responding to...
Manchester Ambulance workers lobbied parliament on December 10th against plans to privatise their service

West Mids Ambulance privatised – and don’t dial 999 over Xmas says NHS North

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HEALTH regulator Monitor has authorised West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust as a new foundation trust, effectively privatising it from 1st January, 2013. The trust...

‘NURSING WON’T BE SILENCED!’ – as Tories attack the right to strike

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JUST PAST noon yesterday, the decision of the High Court was announced on the three-day RCN strike. This was to run from 8pm on 30th...

Round the clock GPs slammed

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TORY leader Cameron is today unveiling measures to force GPs to open from 8.00 to 8.00pm and on Saturdays and Sundays. The hours change is...

Anger erupts outside Chauvin murder trial!

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AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...

Netanyahu’s ‘reshaping of Asia has been shattered’ – Hamas

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the ceasefire Israel eventually clinched with Hezbollah has shattered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘illusion’ of reshaping West Asia...

Tory Plan To Use Troops To Break NHS Strikes Condemned

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NHS TRADE unions, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Unison and Unite condemned Tory Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi’s announcement yesterday morning that he is...

Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister Kidnapped

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The top American commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus has said he is preparing recommendations on troop reductions before he returns to Washington next...
Under planned new Tory powers targeting ‘all forms of extremism’ – views of protesters on demonstrations like this one which took place last Saturday in Sheffield would be considered ‘extreme’ and individuals and organisations targeted by the state

Tories launch war on ‘all extremism’

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‘IT is no good simply talking about violent extremism, we need to confront all extremism, we need to recognise that the poison of extremism...
The DEH Computer Centre building under occupation. Banners state ‘We resist’ and ‘We will not cut off the electricity supply to the poor even if they put us in prison’ – signed by the DEH trades union

‘POSTPONE GREEK ELECTIONS’ – demands EU dictator

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THE Greek coalition’s Finance Minister Evagelos Venizelos has said that the general election date agreed for February 19 by both the ex-Prime Minister Papandreou...

African-American farmers lost $326bn worth of acreage in the 20th century

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AFRICAN-American farmers lost roughly $326 billion worth of acreage during the 20th century, adding to the racial wealth gap in the United States, a...

New Tent Camp Massacre!

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ISRAELI air attacks targeted displaced Palestinians in tent camps in al-Mawasi refugee camp in western Rafah again yesterday, killing 21, including 13 women and...
NAPO members opposed to privatisation on the October 2012 TUC demonstration in London

Probation Staff Strike Today!

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STAFF working for the probation service in England and Wales are walking out of their offices at noon today in a 24 hour strike...

‘Macron has destroyed our social services’ say French protesters

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FOR the first time since massive regular protests began in January, the French government has held discussions with union leaders regarding the two year...
ROSE GENTLE, lawyer PHIL SHINER and PETER BRIERLEY outside the House of Lords yesterday, where they called for a public inquiry into the legality of the Iraq war. Rose Gentle’s son Gordon died in Iraq in 2004, aged 19

PUT BLAIR ON TRIAL! – say parents of UK soldiers killed in Iraq

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Former Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet should be put on trial for war crimes, said the parents of soldiers killed in the...

Euro Crisis Crunch Time

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US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner held emergency meetings with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday. Markets had...

‘NHS In Crisis – Pm In Denial’ – Corbyn

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TORY PM May hit out at the British Red Cross at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons yesterday, describing its warnings...

Free the hunger strikers now! – Lammy surgery protest demands

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A LIVELY demonstration was held outside the surgery of the Labour Justice Secretary and deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP in White Hart Lane,...
Teachers standing up for education on the TUC march  – an Ofsted report has highlighted an alarming teacher shortage, sixth form funding crisis and youth driven into poor quality apprenticeships

Alarming teacher shortage

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‘AN ALARMING teacher recruitment crisis is gripping England’s schools,’ teachers union NUT warned yesterday, adding that ‘no amount of “golden handshakes” will resolve the...

‘ISSUE A CALL TO ARMS AND ORGANISE A GENERAL STRIKE!’ – airport workers urge...

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‘UNITE said they were going to call a strike and they should have gone ahead with it. They said they were going to, but...

14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!

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THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...

DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT OF MURDERERS! – shout 50,000 Greek workers and youth!

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‘DOWN with the government of murderers’ shouted over 50,000 enraged workers and students last Thursday in Athens in a most militant march on the...

Mau Mau Torture Victims Victory

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THERE was jubilation among a group of fifty former Mau Mau freedom fighters in Nairobi yesterday as news broke that a torture victims compensation...

£12bn NI RISE MUST GO AHEAD! – say Johnson and Sunak

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THE £12bn rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from April is ‘the right plan’ and ‘must go ahead’, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak...
Medical students demonstrating in June last year against the loss of accommodation allowance for first year junior doctors

COMMERCIALISATION THREATENING FUTURE OF THE NHS – warns doctors leader

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‘The government’s dogmatic and misguided plan to commercialise the NHS has gone too,’ British Medical Associatoin (BMA) Chairman of Council, Dr Hamish Meldrum warned...